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Enter the Killer Robots: The Ukrainian Forging the Future of Warfare

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The Global Profile Enter the Killer Robots: The Ukrainian Forging the Future of Warfare Credit... Brendan Hoffman for The New York Times Skip to content Skip to site index Search & Section Navigation Account Mykhailo Fedorov, Ukraine’s 35-year-old defense minister, sees futuristic military technology as crucial to his country’s survival. By  Andrew E. Kramer Reporting from Kyiv, Ukraine May 15, 2026 As Ukraine’s 35-year-old defense minister strolled about in tennis shoes, jeans and a fleece, gazing at displays of his country’s latest crop of oddball weapons, he paused to eye one gigantic, ungainly new device. It was a drone with muscular carbon fiber arms stretching eight feet to each side, propellers the size of scythes, and a sprawl of wires, protruding antennas and Velcro straps. The drone substitutes for a 155-millimeter howitzer, carrying shells to targets and dropping them. “Can you make it bigger?” the minister, Mykhailo Fedorov, asked the drone’s developers during a rec...
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From Quora: Can you tell which part of Ukraine a soldier is from just by listening to them speak?

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One answer: MosaicPalate  ·  Follow Sun Paradoxically, the soldier speaking the cleanest, textbook Ukrainian in a trench is often from the historically Russian-speaking east. Historically, Ukraine has possessed a rich tapestry of dialects and languages. A native speaker can frequently pinpoint a person's home region by listening for specific vocabulary, phonetic habits, and the degree of blending between languages. Here are a few ways these differences manifest: Western Dialects:  Soldiers from regions like Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, or Zakarpattia often speak with distinct regional accents heavily influenced by historical ties to Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary. A soldier from Galicia might use regional vocabulary like  faino  (good or nice) or  filiyanka  (cup), and they often have a distinct, slightly softer pronunciation of certain consonants. Eastern and Southern Surzhyk:  In the east and south, historically areas with higher rates of Russian langu...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/us/politics/trump-commencement-address-iran-coast-guard.html

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Elena Gold on Ukrainian-Russian history ...

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From Quora received May 19   Elena Gold  ·  Follow Media analyst  see also ; and also What's the issue between Russia and Ukraine and how are the two related? Ukraine has a better climate, better soil, better positioned in Europe — Russia is jealous of all of that.    Ukraine is more ancient than the Russian Federation. Moscow was founded in the 666th year since the date of Kyiv being established. (Yeah, I got chills when realized it as well.) Moscow celebrates its birthday in the second week of September, while Kyiv celebrates it on the last Sunday of May. It’s 665 years and 3 months difference. When Moscow was first mentioned in chronicles in 1147, Kyiv was a famous kingdom and a trading centre for centuries. Some Kyiv princes subjugated the peoples living in the area where they built an outpost called “Moscow”, then it was overrun by Mongols — and the Moscow princes partnered with Mongols and began fighting against Kyiv-ruled principalities. Musco...
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